What she said she couldn’t determine is whether the ax blows came before or after his death.

She also said there was evidence to show that the thigh bones had been gnawed by an animal. Veronica Vance, a State Police forensic anthropologist, testified that Haney’s legs were chopped off with an ax. Part of his remains were discovered in plastic bags in her barn. Later, she questioned whether he was alive when she shot him.ĭefense attorney Garren Pedemonte argued that there wasn’t any concrete evidence to rebut Monica’s claims that she shot Delicino in self-defense or to show that Haney was alive when Monica shot him. Her stories never matched the forensic evidence, Allan Smith, senior assistant deputy district attorney, told the jurors in his closing arguments.Īt various times, Monica claimed that Delicino shot himself repeatedly in the head, or that she shot him in self-defense and he was eaten by her pigs before she buried his remains on her farm, Smith told jurors.ĪBC News reports that Monica told officials that Haney disappeared in the summer of 2013 and added that she found him being disemboweled by the pigs a month later, and that she shot him to ease his suffering. Throughout the duration of the case, Monica’s stories about how she shot the two men went through several reincarnations, ABC News reports. “It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer,” he said. You valued pigs more than you value people.” “You shot two people and fed them to your pigs,” Barnack said.

Throughout 18 grueling hours of videotaped interviews and her six-day jury trial, Monica never took responsibility for the men’s deaths and told authorities she was afraid her pigs would be killed if she reported the deaths, per The Mail Tribune.

The men were allegedly fed to her pigs and the rest of their remains were discovered in January 2014, on the 20-acre farm in rural Wimer, located in southern Oregon. Charged in the shooting deaths and dismemberment of Stephen Delicino, 59, in the summer of 2012, and Robert Haney, 56 in September 2013, the murders took place more than a year apart. Monica, 66, sat quietly while jurors in the Jackson County courtroom read unanimous verdicts of two counts each of murder and abuse of a corpse, The Mail Tribune reports. Describing her as a “cold-blooded killer,” Circuit Judge Tim Barnack immediately sentenced Monica to a minimum of 50 years in prison, The Associated Press reports.

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